If you're travelling abroad then you're going to need to make sure you know a thing or two about local etiquette. From how much to tip, to dining do's and don'ts, here's Swissotel's guide to worldwide etiquette.

Color process prints from Kodachrome color slides of the Great Depression in the United States of America from 1939-1943. The photos, from the Library of Congress, were taken by the Farm Security Bureau.

Photographs By James Mollison Out of sight, out of mind, the phrase continues to plague my perspective. I suppose that's why traveling's so important. A collaborative project between American journalist Chris Booth and photographer James Mollison...

With everyone and their grandmother having a digital camera you can make almost anybody look like a professional photographer, well, better-than-amateur at least. You can use this simple process on almost any photo you take.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, when you meet them you think, "Not bad. They're okay." And then you get to know the...

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Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they're working …

Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending...

Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharin...

The King has fired his jester. Burger King is parting ways with its ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, with whom it has worked since 2004. While the work never succeeded in toppling McDonald's as number 1 hamburger slinger, it certainly recreated B...

I went to a dinner party at a friend's home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time. Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown. I wanted

Radical Philosophy is a UK-based journal of socialist and feminist philosophy. The journal appears 6 times a year and features major academic articles, commentaries, news and a large & diverse reviews section.